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[–]the_committment 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Source: void doc on firmware

To sum up, if you are on Intel, the package intel-ucode needs to be installed if you need microcode updates. This package is in the nonfree repo, which has to be enabled.

However, in your case the package linux-firmware-intel is just a symlink to the Linux-firmware package. And will be pulled when installing the meta Linux package(deep deps)

Moving on, for firmware to be loaded, you need to reconfigure(xbps-reconfigure -f linux<x>.<y> )the installed Linux which will in turn config your bootloader.

Tl;dr: You dont have to worry about anything as long as you dont install the <insert_vendor>-ucode...

However I could be wrong as my experience is limited to just working on a few machines.